Mickey Mouse cake without a special pan

Ingredients

• 1 box cake mix (or your favourite homemade recipe)
• Water, oil, and eggs, as called for on the box
• Icing sugar
• Butter
• Milk
• Black food gel
• Red food gel
• Peach food gel (or mix yellow with a touch of red)

Instructions

1. Divide cake batter between one greased 8″ or 9″ pan and 6 greased jumbo muffin tins. Let cool completely, then cut the round cake down to a size that is more proportionate to the ears. I cut off about ⅙ of the cake, I would guess. Make a big batch of the best ever buttercream icing (link in post).
2. Divide the icing into 3 bowls (you only need a tiny bowl for red), and dye them black, red, and peach (I mixed yellow with a hint of red for this). Ice the whole round cake with peach first.
3. Let set, then proceed with black. For perfect edges, put some of your icing in a Ziploc bag, cut a small corner off, and pipe icing out that corner to form the edge you want. Use this technique for all the “detail” work of the eyes, nose, and mouth. Put the red icing in a bag, cut the corner, and fill in the tongue carefully. Press white chocolate chips in upside down for the eyes.